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Backlog Elimination Thread?

I know that a lot of people, myself included, have quite a few games they own but haven't finished or even started yet. Would anyone else be interested in a "pick this one to play next" thread where you post a few titles (or all if it's not a huge list) and get suggestions from other RPGamers as to which to start next?

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Give me Underboob, or give me death![SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"As a gaming enthusiast, people who carry a pro-hacker flag for selfish self-entitled reasons and willfully ignore the damage that rampant piracy does to developers as well as hardware producers don't deserve to enjoy the games and systems that these companies have poured their souls into to produce."

"A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time." ~ David Jaffe

Are there not certain games in your backlog you can never finish because they are too hard and/or annoying for you? I think every Ogre Battle game falls into this category (hard, annoying). Also, Eternal Poison (too hard).

Oh WOW I like that site! I've been looking around for a site that records games beat/playing/backlogged! I use My Anime List for my anime and manga, but SO happy I can use one for games now Thank you! Time to get recording!!

Interesting how there is a `beaten` and `completed` button... I guess beaten is just beating through the main story and completed is everything 100% done.

evilpaul, is there a darker color you could post in? Pinkish-purple on light grey is kinda hard to read.

My backlog pile is much smaller than some. Couple of the FF Tactics games unfinished or unstarted, a couple other this-and-that's. The real problem is, I never get around to playing them at all, so I doubt I'll find the time in the foreseeable future. Certainly not with the rest of the Year of Final Fantasy to attempt. I'm thinking about taking the last month (when FF13 comes out, hopefully) and finishing some of the Tactics games.

wfb- The World Ends With You, hands down. You can then work on the other games while working on the post-game content of TWEWY.

Yep, There is also a Mastered choice as well. Its for games you've completed and did some sort of challenge run (speedrun, mo magic run, no death run) stuff like that.

Give me Underboob, or give me death![SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"As a gaming enthusiast, people who carry a pro-hacker flag for selfish self-entitled reasons and willfully ignore the damage that rampant piracy does to developers as well as hardware producers don't deserve to enjoy the games and systems that these companies have poured their souls into to produce."

"A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time." ~ David Jaffe

Yep, There is also a Mastered choice as well. Its for games you've completed and did some sort of challenge run (speedrun, mo magic run, no death run) stuff like that.

Working on my list is going to take some time... (Especially the wish list part ._.) For me, I have an entire master list of games played/books read/anime watched list (just in case one of the sites ever go down), on Notepad, but the sites too, provide a nice, cleaner version.

As for games I`ve mastered, so far only two are on the list: a short, simple PC game (Hocus Pocus), where I have played and beaten it too death, and have nothign extra to collect or anything. Second to that is Pokemon Blue, in which I`ve spent over 100 on, glitched it out well, and used my red and yellow to raise even the PRE-EVOLVED forms, and sent them over to Blue (well, all but Mew. No Game Shark for me, and I am NOT starting it over to try the legit trick).

Think I mutalated those games, especially Blue ._.

...working on a Backlog list should be fun though, especially adding in games I`ve played, but pretty much dropped out on (which I suppose, will be my `null` option).

Give me Underboob, or give me death![SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"As a gaming enthusiast, people who carry a pro-hacker flag for selfish self-entitled reasons and willfully ignore the damage that rampant piracy does to developers as well as hardware producers don't deserve to enjoy the games and systems that these companies have poured their souls into to produce."

"A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time." ~ David Jaffe

Give me Underboob, or give me death![SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"As a gaming enthusiast, people who carry a pro-hacker flag for selfish self-entitled reasons and willfully ignore the damage that rampant piracy does to developers as well as hardware producers don't deserve to enjoy the games and systems that these companies have poured their souls into to produce."

"A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time." ~ David Jaffe

Well, I already have a game list, so I won't be posting on Backloggery, but I am having a harder and harder time picking the next game. Currently I'm playing Ecco the Dolphin, but after that, I'm thinking of one of:

Yeah Shoptroll, you're probably right. I was in the Egypt scenario when I put the game down last. Should be fun once I finished Ecco.

Nyx, I say you probably have the right priority going so far. For the games you put down, I'd say pick up Retro Game Challenge next. Unless you already finished Haggleman 3, Star Prince and Guadia Quest... in which case you can probably just move on .

I couldn't get past the second boss in Prinny. I should really try again sometime.

I'm excluding Roguelikes/Diablo-likes for the moment, since I'm more in the mood for a deliberately designed dungeon rather than something random. Any thoughts? I'm leaning towards Arcana just because I've already finished the first two dungeons, but I was also thinking that "The Bard's Tale" might be more interesting.

Zerker, if you are just looking to check off another game, go with The Immortal. It's fun (once you get past the frustration of instant death tiles) and you can reasonably beat it in about 2 hours tops. Otherwise, I'd wholly recommend Phantasy Star.

I actually finished Arcana since my last post, and I have started Solstice (using an emulator so I don't have to play it in one sitting). I may play the Immortal next, although I found the combat very awkward from before.